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01-01-2007 | Letter to the Editor
Large Brunner’s Gland Hyperplasia Treated with Modified Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection
Authors:
Reina Ohba, Michiro Otaka, Mario Jin, Masaru Odashima, Tamotsu Matsuhashi, Youhei Horikawa, Natsumi Hatakeyama, Nobuya Mimori, Nobukatsu Kinoshita, Shigeto Koizumi, Taiji Takahashi, Sumio Watanabe
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Digestive Diseases and Sciences
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Issue 1/2007
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Excerpt
Brunner’s glands are mucosal and submucosal alkaline-secreting glands that are most commonly located in the duodenum, especially in the first part of the duodenum, although they are rarely found in the pylorus and jejunum. Hyperplasia of these glands is normally seen in 2% of upper gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopies [
1]. Five percent to 10% of benign duodenal tumors are caused by lesions of Brunner’s gland [
2]. They are usually asymptomatic and lesions are discovered incidentally but they can occasionally cause symptoms such as GI hemorrhage and obstruction when they reach sizes >2 cm [
3,
4]. In this paper, we report a case of large hyperplasia of Brunner’s gland successfully treated by modified endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) technique. …
